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MichaelMoser123 on May 10, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Git rebase in depth

How comes that I see older commits with git log -p ? I can even see what the commit changed.

tomcatfish on May 10, 2019 [–]

Those commits are referenced. Parent comment is talking about commits that have no references to them (ie. You make a commit then remove all traces of it, it is not gone completely until after a certain amount of time).

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